Entertainment

Home grown web series Starting From … Now! Has clocked up over 10 million views in its first year of release and proved popular with audiences worldwide. Now creator Julie Kalcef is calling for fans to help raise funds to make season 4.

After 25 years in television, actress, comedian and celebrity interviewer Ruby Wax left it all behind to study mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. Now, with years of depression and a master’s degree from Oxford behind her, she is touring Australia with her successful live show Sane New World, part comedy show, part group therapy session. Wax speaks to Garrett Bithell.

Andrew Bovell’s tightly wrought drama begins with a fish falling from the sky. The year is 2039, and Alice Springs is being lashed by a tropical rainstorm. A desperate Gabriel York, who finds the fore-mentioned fish at his feet, is out on the soaked streets making his way back to his 10th-floor bedsit.